Bhīma, the second elder of Pandava brothers was very proud of his muscular strength. He believed that none could excel him in all the three worlds.
One day, Krishna took all the Pandava brothers and their wife Draupadi to heaven for sightseeing, leaving Bhima to come by himself, since he had nothing to fear from gate keepers, owing to his known ability to defeat them. Krishna took all the five in, and both the gate keepers kept quite on seeing Him.
When the party had seen everything worth seeing in Heaven, Draupadi remained Krishna that Bhīma had not still arrived.
“Perhaps, he has already killed the poor gate keepers” suggested Krishna.
Coming outside they found that gate keepers are sleeping at their posts, and poor Bhīma, with his club, getting sucked into the nostrils of one or other of them at every inspiration of theirs and being pushed out again at each expiration. The gate keepers were not so much as aware of his prescence.He there!
Poor Bhima looked a miserable sight. Krishna saw that he had been sufficiently humbled, took pity on him, woke up the gate keepers, and released him from his agony.
BHIMA’S PRIDE OF STRENGTH
